by Charles Norman | Jan 30, 2019 | Music
Country music didn’t stay country for long. As soon as the Carters could rub two coins together, Maybelle and the girls left A.P. stranded on Clinch Mountain and decamped to the Nashville suburb of Madison, where their neighbors included Hank Snow and Colonel Tom...
by Charles Norman | Jan 25, 2019 | Song of the Day
Dusk makes American music, an America with one foot in Liverpool and the other south of the border in the realm of Doug Sahm and Augie Meyers. The left hand is splayed across Tennessee with digits touching Clinch Mountain, Nashville, and the rockabilly bars of...
by Charles Norman | Jan 20, 2019 | Song of the Day
When we got home, I took the green glass epergne that belonged to Aunt Mildred off the sideboard and smashed it with a hammer. Then I dumped Grandmother’s sewing box into the ash can, burned a big hole in her lace tablecloth, and buried her pewter in the garden. Out...
by Charles Norman | Jan 18, 2019 | Song of the Day
There was a time when singers did not need auto-tune, backing tracks, costume changes, or a crew of dancers. They just got up on stage and belted it out. Janis Joplin was and is one of the greatest singers to stalk a stage, delivering her blues with a comforting hand...
by Charles Norman | Jan 7, 2019 | Song of the Day
But we decide which is rightAnd which is an illusion- from “Late Lament” by Graeme Edge Friends existed entirely within the imagination of Monica Geller. An overweight child, bullied and isolated, Monica sought refuge in her cramped room in the back of an...
